News roundup and analysis from BBC World Service.
Joan Bakewell considers the beauty, value and enduring symbolic power of diamonds, pearls and rubies. Producer EleyMcAinsh Repeated at 11.30pm
Anna Hill meets people who live the real country life. Executive producer Steve Peacock
Sri Lanka v England Commentary on the fifth and final day's play in the Second Test. e, me Producer Pet er Baxter * Approximate time
With Roger Bolton. Series producer Amanda Hancox
Patricia Routledge makes an appeal on behalf of the Abbeyfield Society. ,. Donations: [address removed] Credit Cards [number removed] Producer Sally Flatman Repeated at 9.26pm and on Thursday at 3.28pm
From Trinity Church, Arvika, Sweden. Another nthe series for Advent, reflecting on groups of people in the nativity story. 3: The incarnation explored through the experience of the women. With Ingesund Music Conservatory. Director of music Leif Nahnfeldt. Producer Claire Campbell Smith
With Alistair Cooke. Repeated from Friday
With Peter White.
Sri Lanka v England Commentary on the fifth and final day's play in the Second Test. e, me Producer Pet er Baxter * Approximate time
Omnibus edition.
Archers Omnibus edition.
The antidote to panel games returns to the Devonshire Park Theatre in Eastbourne. Jeremy Hardy joins Barry Cryer , Graeme Garden , Tim Brooke -Taylor and Humphrey Lyttelton. Repeated from Monday
Cookbooks. Sheila Dillon presents a roundup ottne year's best food cookbooks. Producer Sam Thorn Extended repeat tomorrow at 4pm
With James Cox.
Editor Richard Clark
3: Journalist Vitali Vitaliev's assignments have taken him all over the world since he defected from the Soviet Union in 1990. He shares with Emily Buchanan some of the music he associates With his work. Producer Merilyn Harris (R)
Roy Lancaster , Bob Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood answer questions from gardeners in Lincolnshire. Eric Robson is in the chair.
Producer Trevor Taylor Shortened repeatonWednesdayat3pm
Robert Valkenburgh plays the wind and reflects on the ancient art of wind music. Producer Grant Sonnex
Rosamund Lehmann's tender story about a young girl's adolescent rite of passage, dramatised by Tina Pepler.
Olivia wakes up on her 17th birthday knowing that something has changed, but what it is, she doesn't yet understand.
(Olivia's story continues on Saturday in "Weather in the Streets" at 9pm.)
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Mariella Frostrup talks to Sylvia Smith about My
Holidays, a travel book that details her disastrous journeys since 1962. And novelist Donna Tartt explains why she's obsessed by Robert Louis
Stevenson. Producer Erin Riley Repeated on Thursday at 4pm January: Clinging to the Wreckage by John Mortimer
The British Haiku Society. Judith Palmer visits the British Haiku Society in Preston to explore an ancient Japanese verse form.
Producer VivBeeby Repeated on Saturday
Major issues, changing attitudes and important events at home and abroad, with Jenny Cuffe. Repeated from Tuesday
2: Another programme in a series of stories from NHS workers offers two differing perspectives on transplant surgery. A theatre technician tells of the first time he was involved in ending the life of a patient during an operation, and a transplant nurse speaks of a kidney transplant recipient whose kidney was retransplanted after his sudden death, a first in UK medical history.
Producer Simon Jacobs Repeated on Saturday
Libby Purves presents her selection of excerpts from BBC radio over the past seven days.
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Ambridge gets festive.
Repeated tomorrow at 2pm
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Join Barney Harwood for the usual mix ofjokes, competitions and brilliant interviews and features. Producer Johnny V Leagas
Five stories from cutting-edge writers.
1: Iapetus by Manda Scott , read by Samantha Bond. A spectacular piece of computer-generated art is the key to a cold-blooded act of murder. Producer Elizabeth Allard (R)
Rosie Goldsmith brings out the best of English-language radio stations around the world. This week she finds outwhat's hot and what's not on the fashion scene. Repeated from Friday
Michael Rosen presents another series about words and the way we speak.2:
Order, Order! Anthony Howard looks at the changing language of political speech while Rosen explores the meanings and origins of 400 years of Christmas words
. And how important is punctuation? Repeated from Friday
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Risky Business. Diane Coyle looks at whetherthe fear of unproven risks to the environment and to human health - such as genetically modified crops, antibiotics in livestock food and the use of hormones in milk production - is hampering technological innovation. Repeated from Thursday
Andrew Rawnsley previews the new week's political events. Including at 10.45 Keeping It in the Family. 2: Gettingln. Why do children of politicians enter politics themselves and is it made any easier by having a famous family name? Political journalist Julia Langdon finds out.
Editor John Evans Keeping It in the Family Repeated Wed 8.45pm
Novelist Doris Lessing and doyen of British designers, Kenneth Grange , talk to Sue MacGregor about their favourite books. Repeated from Tuesday
Repeated from 6.05am
A re-run of a four-part series on the history and passion of dance.1: Jive. In the 1920s, the lindy hop exploded on to the Harlem scene. Dancer Frankie Manning and historian Terry Monagham tell the Story Of jive. Producer Sara Conkey (R)
